Current Child Count

HOGAR DE AMOR I: 11 babies

HOGAR DE AMOR II: 6 boys

HOGAR DE AMOR III: 8 girls

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

TWINS are coming!!!!

I AM SO EXCITED I WANT TO WRITE IN ALL CAPS!!! But that's not the most mature way, so I'll try to calm down and speak normally. Denise and I can hardly stop grinning. We were having a meeting about the child sponsorships when child welfare called and said they had decided to take the mother's abandonment request seriously. I was even told their names and a bit of the story but barely remember anything because my brain just started spinning when I heard "twins". (First she said "gemelas", so I whispered "twins...girls!" to Denise, then she changed it to "gemelos", so I said "no...boys!")

So, it's two boys and they'll supposedly come in two days!!! They are 13 months old.

Last week I was thinking about how every few months last year we got calls about twins (one pair ended up not coming) and it's been almost 9 months without any.

I'd been "planning" for a while to receive a newborn in July if one came up, which now I doubt since we're getting two at once, but hey, I'm not complaining! Katrina, are you happy now? You've really wanted twins for a month now. Any chance of you moving up your return trip? ;-)

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Current Prayer Needs, updated August 14, 2015

~ The financial situation for Casa de Amor is uncertain at the moment. Funding seems to have slowed, so please pray for financial wisdom for all of us and for donations to generously come.

~ Please pray for the newly functioning local board of directors. They have some big decisions to be making and are seeking God's wisdom.

~ Thank you for praying for a new social worker! A very experienced one began work with us on February 2.

~ Please pray for good progress to be made in the social cases of all of our children so that their papers can be processed for a return to family members OR adoption. Several cases are in the works now!

Baby Joel

Baby Gabriela

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No Names

Due to the nature of our work, Hogar de Amor has a policy of not posting kids pictures AND names together on the internet or public places. How I wish I could, but I could easily have people from Belgium to Canada and everywhere in between writing and asking "How can I adopt [fill in the blank]?" (You can't! Yet! They're mine.) Or many other scenarios which are not good for the kids/homes, so sorry about that...

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Favorite Quotes

"Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it is doomed to failure."

"We can do no great things; only small things with great love." Mother Teresa

“What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do." John Ruskin

"I am only one,
but I AM ONE.
And I cannot do everything,
but I can do SOMETHING.
And what I can do I WILL DO.
And what I will do, I MUST DO,
For I AM ONE." Helen Keller

Donations

Small amounts go far in Bolivia! To donate to our children, make checks payable to "GOAL" (Global Orphan Assistance League) and mail to GOAL/Casa de Amor at P.O. Box 357, Collierville, TN, 38027. All donations are tax deductible in the US. Thank you!!

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A lot of kiddos!!

Casa de Amor I, II, III, August 2008 Park Outing

"And Jesus took the children in his arms, put his hands on them, and blessed them." Mark 10:16